Posts by Dr. Seltsam

Did HD also work? I read that under Linux only SD is possible.

Is it possible to watch Amazon Prime videos on a Raspberry Pi 2 with current stable LE 9.2? I couldn't find any information in this forum, and also no add-on in any repository. Looking with Google, I find references to a Sandmann79 repository. Does this still work?

should I open a ticket?

After I read the announcement for 9.2.0

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In this initial release 1080p playback behaviour and performance on the 4B are broadly on-par with the previous 3B/3B+ model, except for HEVC media which is now hardware decoded and massively improved

I replaced my Raspi 2 with a new 4B. But it is unusable. The video is stuttering and I see tearing effects. I play 1080p24 Movies (h264) with 24Hz and the TV switches correctly to this mode.

Here is a debug log:

http://ix.io/24y6

The guys at OSMC seem to be less euphoric:

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As the device is new and MMAL is being deprecated from Kodi, we need to support V4L2/GBM. This is still a work in progress by Raspberry Pi

In the interim we will support software decoding. It will be a long time (at least a year) before hardware video acceleration is working well using this stack.

(This was end of October 2019.)

So what is the current status of Raspi 4 support? Should it play 1080p h264 as good as the Raspi 2? If so, why do I experience these problem?